PRESS DIGEST - Bulgaria - Nov 24
SOFIA, Nov 24 (Reuters) - These are some of the main stories in Bulgarian newspapers on Monday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
-- Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov denied reports that central bank's governor Ivan Iskrov, who is expected to step down in the coming days, will be appointed as Bulgaria's representative of Bulgaria at the Black Sea Trade and Development Bank (BSTDB) (Standart, Presa).
MONITOR - Deputy Prime Minister Meglena Kuneva expects the EC monitoring report on Bulgaria, which will be released in January, to be extremely critical, adding that the Balkan country remains "an island of non-happening things in the area of the judicial system and the one of justice as a whole".
-- The deadline for the completion of construction works at Lot 2 of the Struma motorway - a 38-km section connecting southwestern towns of Dupnitsa and Blagoevgrad, is October 2015, Regional Minister Lilyana Pavlova said (Standart, Monitor, 24 Chasa).
-- Some 599 red-eared sliders have been seized at the Sofia airport. The turtles had arrived to Bulgaria from Singapore as the shipment was declared in papers as 13 special containers with live fish (Standart, Monitor, Sega, 24 Chasa).
